Chapter 18 Cutting Honey (New Book Rush List, Ask for Click Collection Recommendation)
Beyond the main trunk, there were more branches on the pine trees, and Yu Shan approached the beehive in a few clicks.
It was already covered in smoke, so while driving away the bees, it also made Yu Shan very uncomfortable.
He didn't have much time, so Yu Shan's speed was very fast, but when the mountain was close to the hive, several rows of bees flew out of the hive and flew towards Yu Mountain like arrows.
Yu Shan had already prepared, and with a wave of his sleeves, he flew away these rows of bee fans.
More than a dozen bees flew one after another, and no bees flew out of the hive.
The smell of mosquito grass is a great threat to the bees, so there are not many soldier bees left in the hive, and even those bees that were fanned by Yu Shan did not come back to attack Yu Shan again.
Without interference, Yu Shan took out a dagger from his backpack, cut off the hive, hugged the hive with his other hand, and jumped directly off the pine tree.
Several times with the help of the branches of the pine tree, the speed of descent was slowed down, and the mountain fell to the ground very smoothly.
After landing, Yu Shan put away the dagger, carefully held the huge beehive with both hands, and immediately ran into the distance.
When he ran to the place where the straw rope was, he stepped on the straw rope with one foot, and he didn't even care about picking up the straw rope, so Yu Shan ran away again.
Yu Shan knew that the dozen or so soldier bees just now would soon bring a swarm, and if he was a little slower, he might fall into the swarm of bees.
I ran out of the forest in one breath, looked at the back, listened carefully, and sure enough, a burst of buzzing came from not far away, and the sound became louder and louder.
Yu Shan ran for a while again, feeling that there was no abnormal sound behind him, and then he put his mind at ease.
At this time, looking at the huge beehive in his arms, Yu Shancai laughed.
How many bees must be in a hive of this size, so complete, that there is no damage to the bee paths above?
The place where the bee colony lives and reproduces offspring is composed of the hive spleen, which hangs parallel to each other in the space of the hive and is perpendicular to the ground, and the spacing between the nest spleen is 7~10 mm, which is called the bee road.
Each nest spleen, made up of thousands of nests linked together, is built by worker bees using beeswax secreted by their own wax glands.
Although Yu Shan had brought the entire hive, he didn't think about bringing them all back.
He carefully found the nest board and the royal platform, the nest board should be kept, and the royal platform would not be destroyed, but he would take most of the royal jelly inside, and of course he would leave some honey and pollen.
The large and small hexagonal nests are respectively for breeding drones and worker bees, and the bottom surface is three diamond-shaped surfaces that are very easy to recognize.
The nest used to cultivate the queen bee, called the king platform, is shaped like a drooping peanut, which is temporarily built by the bee colony before the bee split, and is mostly on the lower part and corners of the nest spleen.
Between the male and worker hives, and at the junction between the nest spleen and the nest frame, there are irregular transitional nests for storing honey and reinforcing the nest spleen, which are cut off in the mountains.
The hives on the "nest board" cannot be used to hatch bee larvae, so they will maintain their bright color, which is also very recognizable, and this part of the mountain will be taken away.
Anyone who collects honey knows that the place where the honey is stored in the bee's nest and the place where the pupa is produced are very separate.
When collecting honey, only the part that has honey is collected, and not all of it is collected, and a part of it will be left for the nest of bees to feed the bee pupa.
If the hive of the bee is harvested once, then the bee will not continue to pupate, they will hatch the existing bee pupa, fly away, move to another place to continue the nest, so the bee will not pick a nest and one less nest.
The cross-section of the old nest can be seen with pollen and watery honey.
This nest is full of pollen, Yu Shan is ready to take it home to soak rice wine, this kind of rice wine is a great supplement, Yu Shan's grandfather likes it very much.
Most of the pollen in the hives collected in the mountains is pine pollen, which is the most suitable for making pine flower wine.
When Yu Shan's grandfather was young, he spent many years in the south, where he learned to make Songhua wine.
Songhua liquor is made of pine pollen and refined white glutinous rice as the main raw materials, supplemented by wolfberry and mulberry for both medicine and food, and is brewed by traditional fermentation technology.
Songhua wine has a very good effect on rheumatism, which is definitely a good thing for the elderly.
Rheumatism is mainly caused by the lack of righteousness, the lack of dense internal organs, the lack of solidity of the outside of the guard, and the feeling of wind, cold, dampness, and heat.
The treatment should be based on dissipating cold, dispelling wind and dampness, replenishing blood, and invigorating blood.
Pine pollen, sweet in taste, warm in nature, can remove wind and stop bleeding, drive away cold and go out.
After making wine, it is necessary to promote qi and blood, the so-called treatment of wind first cures blood, and blood and wind self-extinguish, which is the mechanism of Songhua wine to regulate rheumatism.
The effect of Songhua wine is mainly to help yang and benefit yin, warm yang and dispel cold.
Songhua wine is made of pine pollen, and cinnamon is used to enhance the warmth and yang.
Goji berries are paired with mulberry to strengthen the effect of nourishing yin, helping yang and benefiting yin, warm but not dry.
Just like the warm sun in spring, it is like a charcoal fire covered with a layer of loess, so that the effect of warm yang continues to emanate.
It can be said that Songhua wine is the same supplement for the congenital and acquired nature, the innate is sufficient to nourish the body, and the acquired strong qi and blood are sufficient, then the righteousness is sufficient and the life is prolonged.
Such a good thing, Yu Shan naturally can't let it go.
Pollen was collected, stored separately, and the next thing was to harvest the honey, which was equal to the mountain treatment, and a total of eight and a half catties of honey were harvested, and more than a dozen bottles were slipped, all of which were full.
The capping rate of this hive has reached about 70%, which is really valuable.
In a slip of honey, it can be seen that the two bottles in the lower right corner are darker in color, which are old nest honey.
Because the beehive is relatively large and there is a lot of honey this time, Yu Shan is divided into old nests and new nests to press honey this time.
The old nest has more pollen mixed with it, and the color is darker, while the new nest has less pollen, the color is lighter, and the light transmittance is better.
Among these bottles, in addition to one containing royal jelly, there are several bottles that have a lot of foam on them, which is due to a lot of pollen mixed in them.
If there is a lot of pollen mixed with honey, it is easy to have foam on the surface, but there is no sour taste and wine taste.
Yu Shan had cleaned up the pollen once before, so the foam this time didn't seem to be very much, and if it wasn't treated, it would directly cover the entire bottle mouth.
Enough fun, Yu Shan carefully put the seventeen bottles into the backpack, feeling that the honey should leave at this time, Yu Shan carefully touched it back again.
He tied a rope to the hive, which was going to hang the hive on the tree again.
When I returned to that place, sure enough, the swarm of bees didn't know where they had flown to.
Yu Shan quickly climbed the tree, hung the hive back in its original position, and after coming down, he packed up the unused straw rope, and Yu Shan walked slowly out of the woods.
At this time, Yu Shan did not leave, but waited, until he heard a familiar buzzing sound from behind, and Yu Shan sped up his pace.
The group of bees would not have gone far in such a short period of time, so after their hives returned, it would not be long before they received the news and rushed back.
Back to the old house of the landlord Bian and put the honey away, Yu Shan relaxed.
Eight and a half catties of honey, of which the old nest honey accounts for more than five catties, the new nest honey is less than three catties, and there is half a catty of royal jelly and half a catty of nectar, this time it can be said that the harvest is huge.
Thinking that the bee colony would build a nest again, Yu Shan was even happier.
By the time he arrives next spring, he will have so many harvests, and such harvests will be made at least twice a year.
Of course, if Yu Shan can feed these bees, maybe the harvest will be even greater.
However, now Yu Shan doesn't have so much effort, and he doesn't think about it, and now honey can bring him a lot of benefits.
You must know that Yu Shan's honey to Zhang Jingya is not given for free, such wild soil honey costs more than 300 yuan per catty, and Yu Shan's half-bottled honey costs 180 yuan, but it is very expensive.
Wild soil honey is a kind of thing, and if you don't know it, you will buy it even if it is very cheap for him.
So sometimes sellers are very entangled, and if it is cheap, it is afraid that it will be considered fake, and if it is expensive, it cannot be sold.
And Yushan's pai honey sells for 361 catties, and no one swarms to buy it!
So it's not realistic to make a fortune on this, but it's still very easy to make some extra money. Of course, you have to find the right buyer and let people realize that this honey is really good, otherwise it will definitely not be sold.
Of course, when Yu Shan got the money from Zhang Jingya for the first time, he didn't think about it, thinking about selling local honey.
At that time, he also looked up a lot of information on the Internet, but the Internet was full of disappointment with Chinese honey.
It is difficult to distinguish the authenticity of honey on the market, and most buyers spend money to buy parallel goods, and they all say that the pure natural soil honey that they have eaten in their hometown when they are children has a really different taste, but they are struggling to find real soil honey.
Whenever Yu Shan sees this, he will sigh with emotion, because there are beekeepers in their village, and they have to go into the mountains every year to release bees.
Every time the beekeeper goes into the mountains to release bees, Yu Shan will join in the fun, follow the mountain camping for a few days, and when there is nothing to do, he also helps manage the bee colony.
After a long time, Yu Shan is also familiar with beekeeping.
So Yu Shan knew that when those buyers were confused, the beekeepers who raised real native bees were even more sad.
Those people can't buy the real thing at a high price, and the beekeeper is raising native bees and doesn't make money, or loses money.
It's really not easy to keep native bees.
Wild native bees live in the mountains, and only farmers who live in the mountains have the opportunity to raise, most of them are traditionally fed, rarely managed, and the bees themselves work at sunrise and rest at sunset.
Only in the early winter of each year, only open the box to cut honey, a box of bees a year, can only get about 20 catties of honey, if the weather is good that year, will take about 30 catties!
However, such pure natural soil honey did not sell at a good price, but fake honey flooded the entire market.